Instead, the Boeing 737-700 came awfully close to rolling off a
cliff with its 124 passengers.

Flying in from Chicago, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 was
expected to land in Branson Sunday evening before taking off
again for Dallas, Texas. For some unknown reason, however, it
ended up touching down at Taney County Airport, about 7-9 miles
northeast of its scheduled destination, on a runway half the size
of the one at Branson.

While airline spokesman Brad Hawkins told the Associated Press,
"The landing was uneventful, and all customers and crew are
safe," one passenger – a Dallas, Texas attorney named Scott
Schieffer – took issue with the statement for apparently
neglecting to mention a couple of important facts.

@MicahGrimes@ABC The landing was
absolutely not uneventful. The Southwest statement saying so is
incorrect; we braked very, very hard.

The incident is under investigation by the Federal Aviation
Administration. According to Hawkins, the airline’s ground crew
was sent to Taney Airport to transport the passengers and their
luggage to Branson, where a separate plane was flown in to
continue the trip to Texas. The other plane, meanwhile, is
expected to take off from Taney by Tuesday.

This isn’t the first time a large plane has landed at the wrong
airport. In late November, RT reported that a massive Boeing 747
Dreamlifter, typically used to haul aircraft parts across the
world, landed at a small airport in Kansas a few miles away from
its intended destination. Due to the plane’s large size, there
was concern it wouldn’t be able to take off using the airport’s
smaller runway, though it eventually moved on with a different
crew at the helm.